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Millions of sites publish feeds with their latest updates, and our built in feed search makes it easy to find new content that interests you.

What IS RSS and What does it do?

"RSS in Plain English" from http://blip.tv/file/205570

Educational Applications (adapted from http://fullmeasure.co.uk/Coming_of_age_v1-2.pdf)

Professional Development - find out about anything you want to know, read experts opinions, connect with peers

Time-Saving  - Read when you want

News - get the latest breaking news on any subject by subscribing to a key word news feed.  (How do you do this?  Go to http://www.google.com/news, type in your search, click Search, scroll down on the left - click on RSS and subscribe)

Blogs We Read

2¢ Worth - David Warlick - http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/

Weblogg-ed - Will Richardson - http://weblogg-ed.com/

Dangerously Irrelevant - Dr Scott McLeod - http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/

Some other places to start -

Mark Alhness- an elementary teacher

Tim Lauer- an elementary principal

Bob Sprankle- an elementary technology integrator

Vicki Davis- a middle school teacher

Jen Wagner- about collaborative online learning projects

Sharon Peters- a high school technology teacher

Dr. Cheri Toledo- an education professor . many resources, blogs,

Science Friday Podcast

http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=4822271

History Hints Podcast

http://www2.ccboe.com/publicinfo/historyhints.cfm

Special thanks to Katie Christo for her collaboration.